Cooperative Extension's mission is to stimulate learning through exploration and discovery, and to enhance agriculture, the environment, our natural resource base, family and youth well-being and the development of local communities. We accomplish this mission by the integration, dissemination, and application of knowledge in agricultural and life sciences
The search is on for new agricultural technology, with the University of Arizona's help. It's a search driven by looming labor shortages as the aging farm worker population retires and younger people aren't following them into the fields.